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Re: The Bushes...OFF TOPIC!
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Posted by Matt from CT on October 15, 2004 at 09:48:48 from (66.181.93.136):
In Reply to: The Bushes...OFF TOPIC! posted by Fred OH on October 15, 2004 at 08:31:26:
>They showed the Bushes with some people we >call "the enemy" today. Like? Osama has...fifty brothers and sisters. Wonder how many aunts/uncles/cousins/nieces/nephes that adds up to. Big family, tieing the *family* to the Bush's isn't necessarily tough when the two families work in similiar/same businesses. But knowing someone in the family means what? I'm friends with a retired farmer, he chairs a few Boards in the Town, he's working with Town to sell it at below-open-market the 100+ acre former egg farm that's strategically located in the center of our town to be the linch-pin of a business park...And his son is on death row for being a serial murderer. All for girls in the 14-18 year old range. Do we condem a father for the sins of his son? Or sisters for the actions of their brothers? Or do we look at people as individuals; do we see what people & groups *do* -- not what some wink-wink nod-nod gossip says about them? It isn't hard to figure out that the same attitudes that allowed intelligence to be so crucially flawed in fears, uncertainity, and doubts doesn't fall far from the tree of current American politics. How can we throw stones in our own glass houses, how can we manipulate primaries by having candidates that appeal to the hard right or left of their respective parties but can still try and make themselves seem centrist in the general election? How can we instill FUD in the voters, tailoring it to micro-specific interest groups based on the latest polls? Accusations like the Bush/Bin Laden connection just don't hold up to common sense (when did America become a nation of conspiracy theories anyway?). Then again, a lot of the right's rhetoric doesn't either. Where are the Statesmen? Morons '04. McCain '08.
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